On June 4th, 2025, Dr. Andy Kilianski, Acting Deputy Director of Health Science Futures at the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), visited Texas A&M University to meet with the team behind the SPHERICAL project.

SPHERICAL (Scientific Platform for High Efficacy Antigen Design via Robust Integration of Computational Experiments, AI, and Protein Modeling) is supported by ARPA-H’s APECx program. Over the past nine months, the entire SPHERICAL team and I have actively reimagined how AI-driven, uncertainty-quantified, and competence-aware modeling can accelerate the design of broadly effective antigens.

During the site visit, we had the pleasure of presenting our progress to Dr. Andy Kilianski, discussing next steps, and sharing our vision for advancing the APECx mission. We look forward to continuing this collaboration and driving the project toward its milestones!